The understanding of ornament in the Italian Renaissance /

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In this paradigm shifting study, developed through close textual readings and sensitive analysis of artworks, Clare Lapraik Guest re-evaluates the central role of ornament in pre-modern art and literature. Moving from art and thought in antiquity to the Italian Renaissance, she examines the understa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guest, Clare Lapraik
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2015.
Colección:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 245.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 10.
Temas:
Decoration and ornament > Philosophy.
Decoration and ornament, Renaissance > Italy.
Décoration et ornement > Philosophie.
Décoration et ornement de la Renaissance > Italie.
ARCHITECTURE > Decoration & Ornament.
DESIGN > Interior Decorating.
Decoration and ornament, Renaissance.
Italy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Kosmos
  • 2 Rhetoric and Illusion
  • 3 Cosmic Decor
  • 4 Architecture and the City
  • 5 Garland and Mosaic in Literary Humanism
  • 6 Topics and Style
  • 7 Ornament and Disegno, Colour and Perspective
  • 8 The City Recovered, Triumph and Time
  • 9 The Emblematic Continuum
  • 10 Spolia and Ornamental Design
  • 11 The Grottesche Part 1. Fragment to Field
  • 12 The Grottesche Part 2. Signs, Topography and the Dream of Painting
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Places
  • Subject Index.

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